Congress 107 - HR 3933 - Patient Abuse Prevention Act

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Administrative fees Administrative procedure Congress Congressional reporting requirements Crime and Law Enforcement Crime prevention Criminal justice information Data banks Department of Justice Economics and Public Finance Elder abuse Employee selection Employee training Ex-offenders Federal aid to health facilities Fines (Penalties) Fingerprints Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Health Health care fraud Home care services Hospices (Terminal care) Hospital personnel Identification devices Identification of criminals Labor and Employment Law Long-term care Long-term care facilities Medicaid Medicaid fraud Medical personnel Medicare Medicare fraud Mental care facilities Nursing homes Ombudsman Paramedical personnel Patients' rights Personnel records Recruiting of employees Science, Technology, Communications Social Welfare

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Patient Abuse Prevention Act - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish programs to prevent abuse of recipients of home health or of long-term care services in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) or other long-term care facilities under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, including background checks on workers and a hiring ban on abusive workers. Prescribes criminal and civil penalties for violation of this Act. Requires State Medicare and Medicaid registries to collect information about nursing facility employees other than nurse aides.

Amends SSA title XI to include abusive long-term care facility employees in the national health care fraud and abuse data collection program database. Includes SNFs, certain other nursing facilities, home health agencies, hospices, intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded, and providers of home health or long-term care services as long-term care facilities.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a demonstration program to provide grants to develop information on best practices in patient abuse prevention training for managers and staff of hospital and health care facilities.

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Mar 26, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 12, 2002

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Mar 12, 2002

Introduced in House

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